Word: painter
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 1950-1959
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
Latvian admirers now living in the U.S. and Sunday Painter Ike has kept it in his office ever since...
...Able, Brooklyn-born Murray Snyder was a newsman (Brooklyn Eagle, New York Herald Tribune) before going to work for Jim Hagerty, is married and has two children. Cracked Hagerty in oblique response to Ross's unhappy departure: Mrs. Snyder's business (she is also a skilled landscape painter) is "raising children." C| Named as Assistant Army Secretary for Civil-Military Affairs (Army Engineers, river and harbors work, etc.) Missouri's Dewey Short, 58, longtime (1929-31, 1935-57) Congressman who got a surprise defeat in last November's elections. Republican Short, for many years a member...
Georges de La Tour (1593-1652) was a leading painter (and father of ten children) in the prosperous town of Luneville in the French duchy of Lorraine. Historians guess that La Tour went to Rome as a young man, learned there the technique of Caravaggio's dramatically spotlighted paintings. Back home he refined his work to make light itself not only a dramatic highlight but the modeling element and dramatic center of his painting...
...heyday La Tour could count on the patronage of nobles, won an appointment as court painter to King Louis...
Under the doctrinaire rules of Soviet social realism, a painter with a hankering for nudes had to hie himself to the nearest gym, coyly disguise his subject as a bather or a physical-culture enthusiast. Last week a young Soviet art student named Ilya Glazunov finally dared break the rule, showed a nude girl (modeled by his wife) lolling in bed while her lover gazes out of the window over the city of Leningrad. The result sent the whole Soviet art world into a tizzy and crowds swarming to the Moscow gallery to see his work. At the gallery Glazunov...